Released:
1973-01-02

Overview:
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.

Director:
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama, War

• Cast:
• 
  Michel Auclair
  as
  Colonel de St-Méran
• 
  Sid Ali Kouiret
  as
  Si Ahmed
• 
  Julien Guiomar
  as
  Le général Beaumont
• 
  Geneviève Page
  as
  Béatrice de St-Mérand
• 
  André Thorent
  as
  Le général Michon